Is life consistent with the Laws of the Universe? Well, duh.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 11/15/2018 5:19:25 AM PST by Heartlander
Any explanation for existence runs into logical problems, so I find your objection boring.
And your use of caps lock ruins any desire I have to take you seriously.
Not a kook.
I like to think of myself as a Christian Intellectual in the mold of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Not afraid of science and I believe God is the Perfect Architect and Designer, and science is the tool He uses to create things.
The idea of God ‘snapping his fingers” to “Hocus-Pocus” something into existence is a child’s thinking.
Note that the Bible doesn’t give us God’s exact recipe for anything he created, even man is raised from dust and breathed into, but what kind of dust, how the air was breathed, all remain not described. Science tells us how.
When one uses their mind/soul/spirit (which was made in God’s image) to examine creation one realizes that the Laws of the Universe; physics, botany, biology, astronomy, chemistry, etc., are ALL God’s laws and ways! And yes, even evolution, although many think that only Atheists believe the evolutionary process of life on Earth, but it is actually God’s method, not some totally random long series of events.
Imagine a master billards player, who, before taking the first shot and breaking the triangle, called every ball and every pocket, and then just did so.
Such is God’s use of his tools to create life.
There's a Book about that. It starts off "In the beginning..."
OK,
How about a Sun Dial?
You really need to stop digging your hole deeper.
One of my old physics professors argued that life on earth wouldn’t exist if ice wasn’t less dense than water. I believe that’s not true of any other element regarding their solid versus liquid states.
“How incredibly egotistical of humans to believe that the Universe was created just for our benefit.”
Egotistical? Or is it *thankful*?
Amen to that
Fred Hoyle said it’s like a tornado forming a working 747 as it passed through a junkyard.
400+ amino acids linked in perfect order to form the simplest protien required for organic life. Random? That’s mathematically impossible.
But meanwhile, Luke 18:9-14 is where I want my heart at.
I like your attitude.
Whether the universe is billions of years old or merely thousands it doesn’t really matter. God did it all either way. He still sits on the throne regardless.
Agreed.
Luke 18:14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
To be honest, I had to hit up Google for the exact chapter and verses. I’m pretty good with the overview but I’m terrible with “chapter & verse” style quotation.
Is life consistent with the Laws of the Universe? Well, duh.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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Is life consistent with the Laws of the Universe? Well, duh.
If you look at life on earth over time it seems to follow a pattern: Things evolve to fit a nitch they stay in that nitch until something replaces them in that nitch. It does not seem to deviate from that pattern even among our supposed precursors.
Our supposed ancestors fit the former rather than the latter, we advanced more in the 10k years after the Younger Dryas than any creature that has inhabited this ever.
If we assume that String Theory (ST) gives a good description then the question is related to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory_landscape The number of theoretically allowed vacua (universes) is extremely large and that is one of the arguments against ST; the issue is to find ways to exclude as many as possible and to find relationships between different parameters so even more are excluded.
If this can be done and if we end up with only one universe then we are done. If there are more than one then there are different possible universes and then the question arise which of the suggested vacua that can give rise to life. The mathematics in ST is quite hard, so it will take some time until there is a solution. That is an argument against studying ST, there are many other areas to study with a better probability to get something interesting.
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